Default Develop Settings

I have none ticked in Lightroom.
But when images come in, I have 50+ on the brightness.
Why, is this?
Alex

magicgenie wrote:
And we don't have ANY option to have RAW come though without any changes?
You can set the defaults to whatever you want - all zeros even (but it'll look pretty bad).
Just set the values to whatever, then Alt-click the Reset button in Develop Mode (it'll change to 'Set Default' when you hold down the Alt key). I guess Option key if Mac.
I had 'em all zero for a while so I could see things in what I thought was the most unadulterated form - but the novelty quickly wore off...
Note: There is no such thing as "No Profile", but you might try Camera Neutral if you are really trying to get the most "base" settings by default.
PS - I dont think of the non-zero defaults as "changes". - I think you may be after some kind of "exactly what the camera sees" settings but its a thinking error: the camera records a bunch of funny numbers based on its little grid of sensors - its the software's job to translate that into a fair amount of r, g, and b at each pixel for human consumption, and the non-zero defaults are a part of that... I think Adobe may have done newcomers to Lr a service by presenting them as zero in the UI, so people dont fret, but I've made my peace with it...
Have fun,
Rob

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These are the default develop values I use on my Canon 5DmkII. (After many hours testing on 100+ images)
Comments and advice welcome...
Landscape, ISO 100-200, 24-105 Lens
CameraProfile = "Adobe Standard",
Clarity = 20,
ColorNoiseReduction = 15,
ColorNoiseReductionDetail = 80,
Contrast = 25,
EnableCalibration = true,
EnableDetail = true,
EnableLensCorrections = true,
LensProfileChromaticAberrationScale = 100,
LensProfileDigest = "0387279C5E7139287596C051056DCFAF",
LensProfileDistortionScale = 0,
LensProfileEnable = 1,
LensProfileFilename = "Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III (Canon EF 24-105mm f4 L IS USM) - RAW.lcp",
LensProfileName = "Adobe (Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM)",
LensProfileVignettingScale = 100,
LuminanceNoiseReductionContrast = 50,
LuminanceNoiseReductionDetail = 70,
LuminanceSmoothing = 10,
ProcessVersion = "5.7",
Saturation = 5,
SharpenDetail = 80,
SharpenEdgeMasking = 25,
SharpenRadius = 0.8,
Sharpness = 40,
Vibrance = 20
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Clarity = 20,
ColorNoiseReduction = 20,
ColorNoiseReductionDetail = 60,
EnableCalibration = true,
EnableDetail = true,
EnableLensCorrections = true,
LensProfileChromaticAberrationScale = 100,
LensProfileDigest = "0387279C5E7139287596C051056DCFAF",
LensProfileDistortionScale = 0,
LensProfileEnable = 1,
LensProfileFilename = "Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III (Canon EF 24-105mm f4 L IS USM) - RAW.lcp",
LensProfileName = "Adobe (Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM)",
LensProfileVignettingScale = 100,
LuminanceNoiseReductionContrast = 25,
LuminanceNoiseReductionDetail = 65,
LuminanceSmoothing = 15,
ProcessVersion = "5.7",
Saturation = 10,
SharpenDetail = 40,
SharpenEdgeMasking = 35,
SharpenRadius = 1.0,
Sharpness = 40,
Vibrance = 20,
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CameraProfile = "Adobe Standard",
Clarity = 10,
ColorNoiseReduction = 20,
ColorNoiseReductionDetail = 60,
EnableCalibration = true,
EnableDetail = true,
EnableLensCorrections = true,
LensProfileChromaticAberrationScale = 100,
LensProfileDigest = "0387279C5E7139287596C051056DCFAF",
LensProfileDistortionScale = 0,
LensProfileEnable = 1,
LensProfileFilename = "Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III (Canon EF 24-105mm f4 L IS USM) - RAW.lcp",
LensProfileName = "Adobe (Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM)",
LensProfileVignettingScale = 100,
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LuminanceNoiseReductionDetail = 60,
LuminanceSmoothing = 15,
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Saturation = 5,
SharpenDetail = 40,
SharpenEdgeMasking = 30,
SharpenRadius = 1.4,
Sharpness = 35,
Vibrance = 20,
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Interested on other peoples ideas, settings, etc...
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That shoots h.264 I believe, which is a delivery codec, not an editing codec.
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//Develop Settings > Camera Raw Defaults
app.document.chooseMenuItem("CRDefault");
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//Develop Settings > Copy Settings
app.document.chooseMenuItem("CRCopy");
//Develop Settings > Paste Settings
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You can't give focus to another application but you can send commands to another Adobe suite application using BridgeTalk
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app.document.thumbnail = Folder(Folder.desktop + "/myfolder");
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Here is how I did my work:
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Now how can I export the development settings from the lightroom at work and import them in my home setup ?
I saw a menu "import from another catalog". can I use this one ? If yes, do I need to copy the "Lightroom catalog" folder ?
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From the computer which has the images developed you invoke the command "export as catalog". You can optionally include both the previews and the images themselves ( called 'negatves'). Write this to a destination from where the other receiving comp can get it, e.g. a portable external drive or shared network.
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In Lr, I think the default is to store develop settings in catalog only.
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Ludovico Perfetto.

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Hope that assists.
Enjoy LR!!

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Probably a question for Bridge users, but that forum is pretty useless, and it relates to Camera Raw, so I'm asking here...
In Bridge, you can search for files by certain EXIF or file metadata, and filter Contents by a few more statistics, like orientation or aspect ratio. However, I've never found a way of selecting files with specific raw development settings, like Exposure = 0.00, or Clarity = 20.
I could use the operating system search instead to search XMP sidecars for text strings, but then there would be no way to easily and quickly work on the resulting files as a batch, as far as I can see.
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Warunicorn wrote:
I know you can filter by exposure by using the Filter panel (natch), which is enabled by default in the lower left corner in Bridge CC.
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regards, RP

Copy-Pasting crop settings also affects other Develop settings?

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Now, I go to Develop screen and crop the first picture. I leave other Develop settings untouched. This makes a "crop" icon to appear on the first picture in the filmstrip. All works as it should.
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